Meet Dr. Reid Pearlman
Dr. Pearlman is a veterinarian in Huntsville, Alabama, who is passionate about providing high quality orthopedic care for the common orthopedic conditions affecting companion animals. Such conditions include fractures of all long bones and pelvis, cranial cruciate ligament rupture, patellar luxation, severe sprains, luxations and more on a case-by-case basis. Through advanced post-graduate training he is able to offer these services confidently to his community.
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Accessible and Excellent
NAVO partners with local veterinarians and shelters/ rescues to provide access to high- quality, quickly accessible, competent clinical and surgical services. By providing surgical services in-house NAVO will allow patients to receive care in a way that is convenient, effective, and will involve your primary veterinarian to ensure you receive the best long- term care for your companion.
Advanced Technology
NAVO is equipped with multiple treatment modalities to address a wide variety of orthopedic conditions. Locking and dynamic compression plating, intramedullary pinning and external skeletal fixation are the more common methods utilized to treat our patients.
Who We Are
North Alabama Veterinary Orthopedics (NAVO) is a practice dedicated to managing orthopedic diseases and associated conditions exclusively. This has enabled us to focus on a narrow spectrum of conditions and treat these conditions well. Currently, NAVO travels to clinics in the region to provide advanced surgical and consultation services.
By building relationships with general practitioners throughout the region, we effectively arrange logistics for patients to ensure they do not have to travel to other cities/ states/ universities/ etc to receive a procedure that can be provided locally. Your doctor is available, accessible and will put your pet's needs first every time.
Lameness/ Limping- diagnosis and treatment
- Torn cruciate ligament/ Torn ACL/
- Luxating Patella
- Hip dysplasia
Trauma
- Hip luxation
- Fractures/ trauma- hit by car/ dog fights/ falls/ etc of femur, tibia, humerus, radius/ ulna
- Fracture of pelvis and sacroiliac luxation
- Articular fractures involving the humerus/ elbow
- Ligament tears/ damage
- Associated soft tissue trauma
Don't settle for amputation.
Don't give up.
Give us a call - we will FIX. YOUR. PUP.
We can arrange the logistics of your repair(s) and ensure that it takes place in a timely manner and gets your pup back on their feet ASAP.
This is our mission and we love doing it!
The NAVO Touch
North Alabama Veterinary Orthopedics recognizes the specific challenges faced by our patients as well as the adverse circumstances they oftentimes find themselves in prior to presentation.
As a result, we utilize the most advanced methods available to treat pain and ensure beloved companions are comfortable and able to engage in normal activity quickly.
All patients receive a constant rate infusion of pain medication before, during and several hours after surgery. The pain medications we utilize act to "reset" pain receptors in the brain and ensure that patients will not only be comfortable after surgery, but will also be pain free before surgery.
For specific cases, we may elect to administer an epidural. An epidural acts to block pain transmission to the brain for an extended period of time. By blocking pain signals to the brain temporarily, we dramatically decrease the amount of anesthetic drug required during surgery and make procedures significantly safer and more comfortable.
Current literature supports managing pain appropriately in veterinary patients leading to superior healing and long term function. We agree.
Serving at clinic(s) near you
Personal Consultation/ Treatment
NAVO believes strongly that good communication along with an individual treatment plan for every patient maximizes patient outcomes. All patients and pet parents will receive adequate consultation and may freely receive further consultation/ counseling regarding their pups surgery at any time. We understand that this is challenging for both pet parents and pets and we are on your team from the initial consult to the resolution.
Our Guarantee
NAVO guarantees that you will be satisfied with services provided. If for any reason you are unsatisfied or your pet seems uncomfortable, please contact us and we will make it right.
Call for consultation and estimated pricing
256-541-9279
Reid L Pearlman DVM
North Alabama Veterinary Orthopedics LLC
From Pain to Gain: Inspiring Orthopedic Surgery Success Stories
Testimonials
"Barkley, our 7 year old Goldendoodle, tore his ACL playing with our other 3 younger dogs. I was skeptical and scared of putting him through surgery. Before this happened, he had never been injured or had anesthesia except for one time when we had his teeth cleaned. We saw our vet and met with 3 orthopedic dog surgeons. Ultimately, we decided to have Dr. Reid Pearlman perform TPLO surgery. He was very thorough on explaining exactly what they would do, how they would do this and went to great detail on the very important aspects of the 8 week recovery period. He is at the 10 week mark and is doing great. The hardest part for Barkley and for us was the recovery afterwards. We have 3 other dogs and had to keep Barkley on daily sedation in order for him to heal properly. I highly recommend Dr. Pearlman!!! He did a wonderful job. He was open to any questions and concerns I had before, during and after Barkley’s surgery."
-Edna Block
"Dr Pearlman saved our dogs broken leg preventing amputation. We are truly grateful for his excellent surgical skills and commitment to our dogs recovery. He also went above and beyond checking in with us during recovery making sure all was well. Highly recommend and beyond grateful for his service."
-Scott and Tammy Simmons
"Last summer our German shepherd jumped the fence and broke his leg. The prognosis was close to zero chance to keep his leg. Dr. Perlman took that chance and operated on him, and miraculously Bebe can now run again and fetch the ball, his favorite thing in the world
thank you Dr. Perlman!"
-Ariana Arcu